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    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing
    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing
    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing
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    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing

    By Dick Methia

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    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing is a HOW-TO book on testing, written for parents (or grandparents) in language that's free of educational jargon. It's chock-full of parent-friendly advice and simple strategies for the busy parent who's concerned about his or her child's success in school.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDick Methia
    Release dateJul 11, 2011
    ISBN9781450785129
    The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing
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    Dick Methia

    Richard A. Methia dick@dickmethia.com www.dickmethia.com Author, award-winning educator and platform speaker and organizational coach •Author: “Public Speaking Essentials,” published in 2011 by Vook.com, an innovative digital publisher. A vook is a blended reading experience combining text, high-quality video and social media. •Author: “Ace Any Test: The Parent’s Guide to Testing” •Author: “Keeping Score: A Teacher’s Guide to the New Testing” •Author: “Helping Your Child Overcome Test Anxiety” •Newspaper columnist: “Along the Boomer Trail” •Web writer: Contributing Writer, Suite101.com and regular contributor to other online content providers. •Grant writer: Crafted successful grant applications totaling more than $1.2 million. •Organizational Coach: Assist non-profit boards and executive staffs with clarifying mission, assessing effectiveness and directing program resources. Clients included NASA, Challenger Center, Educational Testing Service, LINK Americas Foundation, Jet Propulsion Lab (NASA and CalTech), Stardust Project and Discovery Lab, among others. •Evaluator: Crafted and delivered program assessments for NASA, Verizon Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation among others. •Curriculum writer: Space science specialty, co-created award-winning national curricula •Platform speaker: Delivered public presentations in 46 states in the U.S. and several other countries, recipient of NASA’s Public Service Award •Speech trainer: Taught communications for over 20 years including The Graduate School, Washington, D.C., one of the world’s largest professional training institutions. Professional Highlights •Teacher, K-16 •Non-profit executive •Curriculum developer/writer •National Finalist, NASA Teacher in Space Project •Playwright •Small business owner •Educational leadership consultant •White House consultant Personal Interests •Hiking •Biblical studies and theology •Archaeology •Space exploration (human and robotic) •Psychology of personality •Theatre •Writing •Fitness

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      The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing - Dick Methia

      The Parent's Complete Guide to School Testing

      Dick Methia

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Dick Methia

      http://www.dickmethia.com

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This guide is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This guide may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this guide with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this guide and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

      Rev. Norman Vincent Peale

      **~~~**

      Contents

      Chapter 1 A Word of Advice

      Chapter 2 Case Study

      Chapter 3 Test Pollution--Factors that Artificially Lower Test Scores

      Chapter 4 The Terrors of Test Anxiety

      Chapter 5 Signs of Test Anxiety

      Chapter 6 What Causes Test Anxiety?

      Chapter 7 Creating a Test Friendly Environment At Home

      Chapter 8 Fostering a Healthy Attitude Towards Testing

      Chapter 9 Developing Smart Test Strategies

      Chapter 10 Prepping Your Child for the Test Environment

      Chapter 11 Helping Your Child Reach Optimum Conditioning for Testing

      Chapter 12 Shielding Your Child from Negative Teacher Attitudes

      Chapter 13 Protecting Your Child from Poor Educational Programs

      Chapter 14 How to Be Sure Your School Is Using Test Scores to Help Your Child

      Chapter 15 About the Author

      **~~~**

      Chapter 1 A Word of Advice

      This guide provides information, advice, recommendations, tips, and techniques to help parents help their children overcome test anxiety and achieve higher test scores. It's sold with the understanding that the publisher and the author are not engaged in offering legal, medical, psychiatric, counseling or other professional advice. If you suspect your child has serious clinical test anxiety, please seek professional help for him or her.

      If your child has a learning disability, the advice in this guide will help. But if you believe your child has a serious learning disability, please seek professional help for her or him. With professional assistance learners with serious disabilities can be very successful on high stakes tests.

      Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider students to be human beings. Lou Ann Walker, Author/producer of manuals and films about the deaf

      **~~~**

      Chapter 2 Case Study

      It’s test day at Jefferson Elementary School. Fifth graders Brooke and Sarah are good friends and share identical B averages. One of the girls will leave this morning’s test smiling, feeling smart. The other, embarrassed by a poor test performance, will leave in tears, feeling totally stupid. Both Brooke and Sarah are capable students with roughly the same IQ. They get the same grades. They even have the same teachers. Why won’t they get the same test scores?

      At the beginning of the school year Brooke’s parents knew the dates for every important test. They understood that Brooke's success on those tests would affect not only her grades but her attitude towards school. They took time from their hectic lives to help their daughter prepare. They tamed her anxiety, helped

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